{"id":7317,"date":"2024-10-18T14:07:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.novlr.org\/?p=7317"},"modified":"2024-10-18T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:08:08","slug":"a-quick-n-easy-glossary-of-poetic-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novlr.org\/the-reading-room\/a-quick-n-easy-glossary-of-poetic-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick \u2019n\u2018 Easy Glossary of Poetic Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Great writing is not dissimilar to great architecture. Its creator assembles myriad precise pieces and fits them together into a seamless whole. To the untrained eye, it looks effortless \u2014 but we know better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As poets, we have many tools at our disposal. They can be a lot of fun to explore, but all the terminology can be overwhelming at first. Not to worry; we\u2019ll break down some of the more common poetic terms you\u2019ll hear poets talking about so you never feel out of your depth again.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A whole bunch of useful poetic terms<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ready? Let\u2019s dive in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Acrostic poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An acrostic poem is one in which the first letter of each line spells out a word or a message. These can be a fun way to create art that feels like it\u2019s talking in code.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Alliteration<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alliteration is a literary device in which successive words begin with the same letter: \u201cBuzzing around like a busy bee\u201d is an example of an alliterative phrase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Anapest<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anapest is a metrical form that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable: \u201cunderneath\u201d is an example of an anapestic word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Anaphora<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anaphora is a literary device in which successive lines open with the same word or phrase: \u201cIn every cry of every Man, \/ In every infant&#8217;s cry of fear, \/ In every voice, in every ban, \/ The mind-forg&#8217;d manacles I hear\u201d is an example of anaphora from William Blake\u2019s poem \u201cLondon\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Assonance<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assonance is a literary device that uses repeating vowel sounds throughout a line of text: \u201cOld age should burn and rave at close of day \/ Rage, rage against the dying of the light\u201d from Dylan Thomas\u2019s \u201cDo Not Go Gentle into That Good Night\u201d is an example of a line that uses assonance. \u201cAge\u201d, \u201crave\u201d, and \u201cRage\u201d have hard A sounds in common, while \u201cOld\u201d and \u201cClose\u201d have vowel sounds in common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Blank verse<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blank verse is a style of poetry that uses strict metre (more on metre below), but doesn\u2019t rhyme. It\u2019s most commonly written in iambic pentameter, lines of ten varying unstressed and stressed syllables. Shakespeare wrote a lot of his work in blank verse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Caesura<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caesura is a break in the middle of a line of poetry. The line might be broken with a punctuation mark or with an extended space (this is called visual caesura).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Canto<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A canto refers to a longer stanza or series of stanzas in an epic poem. They function as \u201cchapters\u201d in a novel-length verse story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Cinquain<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A cinquain is a stanza or standalone poem of exactly five lines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Concrete poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A concrete poem is a poem written in a shape representative of what it\u2019s about; for instance, a poem about rain written so that the words form the shape of a raindrop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contrapuntal poetry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contrapuntal poetry is a clever approach in which one or more poems are woven together to create a single poem. This means that the reader can interpret it in multiple ways, depending on how they structure the words in their mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Couplet<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A couplet refers to a single stanza of only two lines. These are commonly found at the end of a poem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dactyl<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A dactyl is a metrical form that\u2019s the opposite of an anapest; it consists of two stressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable: \u201ctenderness\u201d is an example of a dactylic word.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ekphrastic poetry&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ekphrastic poems are written in response to another piece of art: a painting, a sculpture, or even another poem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Enjambment<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjambment is a literary device in which lines of poetry are cut off in the middle of a sentence. This can give the poem a specific rhythm or sometimes give the words a double meaning. Gwendolyn Brooks\u2019s poem \u201cWe Real Cool\u201d is full of enjambment: \u201cWe real cool. We \/ Left school. We \/ Lurk late. We\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Epistolary poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Epistolary poems are written in the form of letters, diary entries, or modern forms of communication, like text messaging.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Erasure poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erasure poetry, sometimes called blackout poetry, is a poem built out of an existing document, like a newspaper article or a page from a novel. The poet takes the existing document and erases or blacks out parts of it so that the words left behind form a poem.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Form<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Form refers to the way a poem is structured. Sonnets, villanelles, and haikus are some of the more famous poetic forms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Free verse poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Free verse poems are written with no set form. They tend to be more conversational than traditional poems.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Iamb<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An iamb is a metrical form that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable: \u201cdevice\u201d is an example of an iambic word.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Line break<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A line break is the place where one line ends, and the next line begins.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Metaphor<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A metaphor is a literary device in which an idea is used to symbolise something else. \u201cA heart of gold\u201d is a classic metaphor that\u2019s used to describe someone generous and kind (not someone with a literal hunk of metal in their chest).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Metre<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Metre refers to the way a line structures its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Metonym<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A metonym is a literary device in which a concept is portrayed through a closely related idea. For example, \u201cthe crown\u201d is often used as a metonym for the monarchy, and \u201cthe press\u201d (referring to a printing press) is used as a metonym for journalists.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Onomatopoeia<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Onomatopoeia refers to words that sound like what they\u2019re trying to say. \u201cRustle\u201d, \u201cburble\u201d, and \u201ccacophony\u201d are all onomatopoeic words.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Point of view<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Point of view refers to the way the narrator\u2019s voice is communicated with the reader. The most common points of view in poetry are \u201cI\u201d and \u201cThey\u201d, but you can also use \u201cYou\u201d or \u201cWe\u201d to tell a story through a poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Prose poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prose poetry is a style of poetry that\u2019s written in a poetic voice but with no line breaks. Instead, it\u2019s presented as a block of text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Quatrain<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A quatrain is a stanza or standalone poem of exactly four lines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Refrain<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A refrain is a line of poetry that\u2019s repeated several times, normally at the beginning or ending of each stanza.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Rhyme scheme<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rhyme scheme refers to the way a poem structures its rhymes, presented in a series of letters. If every second line is rhymed together, the rhyme scheme of ABAB. If the first two lines rhyme and then the following two lines rhyme, the rhyme scheme is AABB.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Septet<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A septet is a stanza or standalone poem of exactly seven lines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sestet or sextet<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A sestet, sometimes called a sextet, is a stanza or standalone poem of exactly six lines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Simile<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A simile is a literary device which compares two seemingly unrelated ideas using a modifier such as \u201clike\u201d or \u201cas\u201d: \u201cShe was as brave as a lioness\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Slant rhyme<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slant rhyme refers to words that don\u2019t quite rhyme but have sounds that are very similar. \u201cBlack\u201d, \u201cBlank\u201d, and \u201cBlink\u201d are slant rhymes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The speaker is the narrator of a poem or the person telling the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Spondee<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spondee is a metrical form with two successive stressed syllables. \u201cDowntown\u201d is an example of a spondaic word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Stanza<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A stanza is a unit that combines several lines of poetry, separated by blank spaces. It\u2019s the equivalent of a paragraph in a poem.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Synecdoche<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Synecdoche is a literary device that equates a part of something as the whole. \u201cWheels\u201d is a synecdoche for a car, while \u201chands\u201d can be a synecdoche for workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Tercet<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tercet is a stanza or standalone poem of exactly three lines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Trochee<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A trochee is a metrical form with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. \u201cPoet\u201d and \u201cTiger\u201d are both trochaic words.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that you\u2019re armed with a new set of tools and poetic terms, <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.novlr.org\/the-reading-room\/three-ways-writing-poetry-will-make-you-a-better-prose-writer\">go forth and write some poetry<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great writing is not dissimilar to great architecture. 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